Science tries to educate, while media is primarily based on entertainment. Entertainment allows the audience to be passive and reactive to an external stimulus; actors move you. While education requires one be active and engaged in a learning process.
This difference is based on sexual position. In sex, the top person is typically more active (freedom of motion) while the bottom person is more passive/reactive (more pinned down). Entertainment does the work for you, putting you on the bottom; receive and react. Education is more work and places you on the top, having to do the work of learning. Science becomes more like a lecture in school and requires work and active study, since it can be hard to understand and grasp. While entertainment is like going to a play where you are passive and react to the stimulus. This is easier and reaches a wider audience.
The advantage of the entertainment approach is connected to the needs of sponsors and advertisers. The advertisers do not want you be too objective, skeptical and questioning, like a scientist. This would make it harder to sell, anything. They need you lying in the bottom waiting for them to do you. If you like they way it is done; jingle, you may fall in love with their products.
There is a term, coined by a talk show host, called the low information voter. This term has a connection to a hybrid between science and entertainment. One is fed information like in science, but not enough to be objective and questioning to all the facts. One is given just enough to be able to draw a desired conclusion, while also stimulated for a passive emotional reaction. In the sex analogy, this like lying side-by-side, not exactly passive or active but a bit of both, so one can draw a conclusion that incites emotions; global warming.
As an example, say you are walking along and you see two men discussing something. As you get closer, one of the men is raising his voice and yelling at the other. Based on this limited data, one may conclude they are arguing with that one guy being more aggressive. It may end in a fight.
To this data point, I would like to add a second data point. The guy being yelled at, is partially deaf, and has asked the other guy to speak up because he is interested in what the other guy has to say. The added data will cause you to draw a different conclusion. The low information or one data conclusion may have got you angry or defensive, while the double data conclusion changes the feeling to calmness.
With the hybrid all you get is part of the data, so even a bright mind, drawing their best conclusion, will draw a conclusion out of touch with actual reality, while inciting an emotional reaction. In side-by-side, the passive (entertainment) and active (education) stimulate each other until both feel they are top and/or bottom, while actually being neither. News with political bias does this, with facts presented, but not all the facts, so your conclusions will get funneled as desired. Campaign adds also use this.
Pot, kettle, black!